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Taking Your Education to the Next Level
The CEI has created two 9-credit graduate certificate programs designed to enrich the career prospects of students from all disciplines. The Entrepreneurship Certificate provides students with a general understanding of how to conceive, launch and manage a small business. This certificate may be especially useful to those working in fields where employment is often dominated by small firms such as accounting, hospitality, digital media, art, music, and health-related disciplines. The Technology Ventures certificate offers a more specialized understanding of the distinctive challenges associated with creating and managing technology or science-based ventures. This certificate program can benefit those working in corporate research environments or who are interested in launching a technology-based firm.
- Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship
- Graduate Certificate in Technology Ventures
- Entrepreneurship Courses
Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship
Overview: The Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship provides students with a deep knowledge base and a diverse skill set used frequently by those successful in managing new business ventures. The program is helpful to individuals in any business arena. However, those looking to launch a new venture, improve a small business, or work in a project-based environment that emphasizes innovation may find the program the most beneficial. The courses, offered by the Management Department in the College of Business Administration, are a mix of theoretical insight, tactical know-how and experiential learning built to maximize opportunities and growth.
Graduate Certificate in Technology Ventures
Overview: The Graduate Certificate in Technology Ventures focuses on the successful development of knowledge and skills needed to commercialize science and technology research. Those students interested in business opportunities enabled by scientific and technological innovations will find the coursework involving intellectual property issues, innovation commercialization processes, technology business strategies and business plan formation invaluable to their success. For those interested in pursuing this certificate, the courses are offered by the Management Department in the College of Business Administration.
Graduate Entrepreneurship Courses
GEB 6115 - Entrepreneurship: PR: Graduate Standing.
Seminar on topics concerning the entrepreneurial process in small and large organizations, including needs assessment, sources and methods of innovation, financing, and barriers to entrepreneurship.
GEB 6116 - Business Plan Formation: PR: GEB 6115 or MAN 6286 or MBA Foundation Core.
Professional development and preparation of company business plan. Full analysis of plan and outside evaluation and ranking.
MAN 5867 – Small Business Consulting: PR: C.I. Hands-on small business consulting course.
Students are assigned teams and work with a local small business.
MAN 6518 - Strategic Innovation: PR: Graduate Standing.
Seminar on topics concerning the entrepreneurial process in small and large organizations, including needs assessment, sources and methods of innovation, financing, and barriers to entrepreneurship.
GEB 5516 – Technological Entrepreneurship: PR: Graduate standing.
Focus of the course is on identification, evaluation and commercialization of new technologies. Emphasis will be placed on the legal, financial and strategy aspects of technology transfer and development.
